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After spending more than a century hidden away, the first Porsche car ever built is now on display in a German museum.

The 1898 “Egger-Lohner electric car model C.2 Phaeton,” known as the P1 for short, was designed by Ferdinand Porsche in 1898, decades before he founded the Porsche brand.

The car was unveiled at the  in Stuttgart, Germany on Monday after sitting in an old shed in Austria since 1902.

The auto on display at the museum is one of only  The wooden-wheeled car was able to travel up to 21 mph and even against other electric vehicles by a margin of 18 minutes.

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